January Visions

For the next six weeks we will live in the church season of Epiphany, although I think we are always really in the season of Epiphany.  An epiphany is an “aha!” – it’s making sense of something, seeing something truthful for the first time.  This season after Christmas focuses on the “aha” stories of Jesus being shown to be King of Kings and Messiah in the arrival of Persian stargazers with gifts for a poor Jewish newborn, the Baptism of Jesus when the voice of God echoes:  “listen to him!”, the wedding at Cana where Jesus changes water into wine, and others.  The season always ends with the epiphany on Mount Tabor when Jesus is transfigured before Peter, John and James and show to be the heir of the Torah (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah). 

These are special moments of revelation about who Jesus is.  But the truth is the whole season of Epiphany points to a world full of epiphanies that reveal God as God and Jesus as savior of all. 

• What are the “aha” moments you have had about Jesus in your life?  How have those moments changed who you are?   
• What “aha” do you need desperately to hear from God?  (So many of the stories of Epiphany are stories when Christ is revealed in a way that is desperately needed by someone.) 
• What “aha” do you have in you to share with others?  How can you reveal God to be God in the way you give of yourself, care for yourself, pray, love, live? 

​God is always present in all that is.  Epiphany reveals that presence in everyday life for us all.  In a world where we each and all too often imagine God is absent, how can we bring eyes to see for ourselves and others so that God’s omnipresence is known in our every moment? 
 
God’s Peace,
Gary+